Data Visualization for Environmental Epidemiology with ggplot2: Mastering Presentation Grade Figures#
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This half-day workshop, led by a diverse, all-female panel of new researchers, will offer live-coding and interactive examples using R statistical software. This session will begin with a brief introduction to the ggplot2 package and supporting packages. Next, we will cover general practices for manipulating data structures and data formatting for creating ggplots. We will spend the majority of the workshop introducing examples of various plots that are frequently used in environmental epidemiology, focusing on the following aspects: · Adding confidence intervals to point estimates; · Manipulating background, axis, titles, legends, colors, themes; · Creating maps; · Saving and exporting high quality figures for presentations and publications. We assume that participants will have some experience in statistical programming. No prior experience with ggplot is necessary, but this workshop is not meant to be an introduction to R. The views expressed in this workshop are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the USEPA. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.